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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Multiple killings, suicide at New Year party

Multiple killings, suicide at New Year party

BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): A
41-year-old Thai man shot dead six relatives including his two children
aged 6 and 9 before turning the gun on himself during a countdown party
at their home in Chumphon's Pato district on Monday night.

Police were alerted to the shootings at 00.20am and, along with
forensic officers and rescue workers, rushed to the scene – a house in
Tambon Pato, the front section of which serves as a salon.

There they discovered the bodies of Wichit Nakhlod, 50, Ratchaporn
Onmuk, 50, and Ngud Onmuk, 71, among fallen tables and chairs with food
and drinks inside the salon and further in the house, found the bodies
of Pakamard Onmuk, 47, Chananthida Sornsang, 6, and Kasidit Sornsang, 9.
Thinnakorn Onmuk, 33, who sustained a gunshot wound to the stomach, was
rushed to Pato Hospital

The body of the gunman, Sucheep Sornsang, 41, was found in a bedroom
with a single gunshot to the head suggesting he had committed suicide
after shooting his relatives dead with a 9mm pistol.

Thinnakorn told police that they were having a New Year party at the house when Sucheep, his brother-in-law, turned up.

He was drunk and started complaining that he had never been accepted
by the family even though he had helped them and wanted to settle the
matter once for all.Sucheep then pulled out the gun and shot the relatives.Thinnakorn said he pretended to be dead after being hit in the
stomach while Sucheep went into the bedroom where he committed suicide.

Deputy provincial governor Somporn Patchimphetch, who inspected the
scene at 1.30am told reporters that the murders appeared to have been
committed in a fit of rage. He added that Sucheep - who was married to the family’s other
daughter Boonnyanuch Sornsang, 37, was resentful at the family’s alleged
hostility towards him.

Boonnyanuch was not present at the party.Somporn said Sucheep was
released in November from the Nakhon Si Thammarat Prison where he had
been jailed for three years for attempted murder.

It was reported that he was unemployed, often drunk and had on many occasions threatened to kill the family. Police will continue to investigate and will also interview Boonyanuch. – The Nation/Asia News Network